Happy October, almost.
The blog rolls on!
Just because nobody reads it doesn’t mean I will stop posting.
Robots! Dinosaurs! The Cryosphere! El Salvador—The Bitcoin project!
Band names
It was a great quarter for the Dave Barry Tribute Great Names For A Band. All of these phrases are torn from real science and technical papers!
Fluidic innervation
Sensorize
Ultrafast
Energy exchange
Two single Rydbergs
Timescale
A jumping reaction wheel unicycle
Non-holonomic
Under-actuated dynamics,
Two unstable degrees of freedom
Self-erection
Disturbance rejection
While balancing
Entanglement purification
Doubling architecture
Quantum memories
Entanglement fidelities
Brain slosh reductions (Or a cocktail?)
Contactless Fabrication
Full Acoustic Trapping
Elongated Parts
Speculative Side-channel Attack
A Forward Speculative Interference Attack
Reorder Buffer Contention
Speculation-invariant instructions
Delay-on-miss
Books
As always, I read and briefly reviewed books every week. This quarter I mentioned 15 fiction and 4 non-fiction. Mostly newly published books.
This summer I read most of the rest of Mick Herron’s Slough House, four of the novels are in the list, another two will be reviewed in coming days.
Fiction
Total by Rebecca Miller
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
NSFW by Isabel Kaplan
The Pink Hotel by Liska Jacobs
The Longcut by Emily Hall
An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Absolute by Daniel Duebel
The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Spook Street by Mick Herron
Real Tigers by Mick Herron
Dead Lions by Mick Herron
Non-Fiction
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black
Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernández
A Quantum Life by Hakeem Oluseyi
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
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